List of books

Can anyone suggest a list of books that are actually accessible to an intermediate player. I mean a list that includes everything from tactics to strategy to endgames and such. It would be greatly useful. Once again, books that are actually accessible and do not require much work.

John Nunn about Euwe's books say that they are too old and modern chess is less linked to general principles and more linked to current requirements of the position. In his midgame book, for example, he talk about queenside pawn majority: Euwe wrote that queenside pawn majority is a decisive advantage, Nunn instead object that, without other positional advantages, it's difficult to win. He often repeats the difference between modern and old chess masters.

@pdve What do you mean by "much work?" You can put as much or as little work into a chess book as you want to. Check out these recommendations and for more info look up customer reviews of any book you're considering at amazon. Silman, Euwe, Soltis, Seirawan and Polgar are a few "brand name" authors you should check out. Avoid anything by GM Keene or Eric Schiller - just to be on the safe side.

PS: GM Kotov (Think/Play/Train Like A GM) is not "simple" his books require "much work" because he expects you to do your own analysis first instead of having everything spoon-fed to the reader. I don't recommend him for anyone rated under 1800 here - at the very least.

I000 Checkmate Combinations by Fred Reinfeld, Victor Khenkin or GM Nunn? Reinfelds book is OK esp at about $6 for a used copy; Nunns book is about $17 (new) & is probably worth it if you want a book written by a world-class GM with a very good reputation. I never heard of Khenkin, so I can't recommend him (or say anything bad about him either)

The link is to the Khenkin's book. Anyway, it seems that Khenkin is not much more than just the editor and one of the reviewers on amazon.com writes that the book is more or less a sort of reprint of "Tal's Winning Combinations". There is indeed a preface by Tal, but in any case it feels that the real authors of the book are the authors of the combinations themselves; the book itself is just a (great) collection of puzzles organized by the piece that delivers the checkmate.

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